Reaching Your Financial Goal: Crowdfunding and Grants
For many people, the hardest and most overwhelming part of preparing a grant request or crowdfunding campaign is the budget. This program breaks down the basics of what a budget should include, as well as how to create budgets that are clear and rea...
Effective Internet Search: Basic Tools and Advanced Strategies
Formed decades ago from a small pool of data sources, the Internet has grown into a seemingly endless ocean of information—in which today’s young researcher can easily get lost. This video introduces strategic, study-related online search method...
Chemical reactions
What do fireworks, a fried egg, and a rusting truck have in common? They all involve chemical reactions. This program illustrates the mechanics of chemical reactions in five sections: Chemical Reactions (reactants and products, state changes, diatom...
The periodic table
Much more than a list of elements, the periodic table is a snapshot of how matter is organized on Earth and throughout the universe. Divided into five sections, this program looks at the history and components of the periodic table: The History of t...
States of matter
This program scrutinizes the concept of phase transitions - from naturally occurring changes in state to those created in laboratories - in five sections: Solids, Liquids, and Gases (properties of molecules in different states; hydrogen bonds, dipol...
Metals
On the periodic table, three-quarters of all the elements are classified as one sort of metal or another. Divided into five sections, this program provides a thorough overview of metals: Metals in Our World (includes iron, lithium, magnesium, mercur...
Recognizing Online Propaganda, Bias, and Advertising
While their motives aren’t always evil, people who bend the truth don’t usually do so for the greater good, either. The online world is no exception—in fact, it’s a paradise for purveyors of hype, pseudo-journalism, and intellectual snake oi...
Plagiarism 2.0: Information Ethics in the Digital Age
For a generation raised on the ideology of “open source” and the ability to quickly cut and paste, the concept of plagiarism may seem foreign or passé. And that, of course, can lead to trouble. This video examines the behaviors that constitute ...
Atoms, Molecules, and Compounds
All matter in the observable universe - from a single blade of grass to a planet in a faraway galaxy - is made up of atoms, molecules, and compounds. This program introduces these minuscule building blocks in five sections: The Nucleus (protons and ...